Clinical Study
Modulating Brain Connectivity by Simultaneous Dual-Mode Stimulation over Bilateral Primary Motor Cortices in Subacute Stroke Patients
Table 1
Patient characteristics and motor function.
| Group | Dual-mode stimulation group | rTMS-only group |
| Age (years) | Mean ± SD | 56.0 ± 13.4 | 54.8 ± 15.5 | Sex (n) | Male | 8 | 9 | Female | 4 | 3 | Lesion side (n) | Right | 5 | 7 | Left | 7 | 5 | Bilateral | 0 | 0 | Location of lesion (n) | Cortical | 1 | 2 | Subcortical | 11 | 10 | Type of stroke (n) | Hemorrhagic | 5 | 1 | Ischemic | 7 | 11 | Time post stroke (days), mean ± SD | | Prestimulation | 20.1 ± 8.7 | 15.4 ± 5.3 | Poststimulation | 94.7 ± 10.1 | 92.3 ± 5.3 | Fugl-Meyer assessment scores, mean ± SD | | Prestimulation | 43.3 ± 19.5 | 42.0 ± 16.9 | Poststimulation | 71.8 ± 26.1 | 60.0 ± 23.6 | BDNF genotype | Val/Val | 4 | 3 | Met allele | 8 | 9 |
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BDNF: brain-derived neurotrophic factor.
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